today ls until my butt pain. and when i'm told to go home to rest, i have to keep working. some kind of rest...
since i'm supposed to be off work now... taking time to blog. hoho.

managed to sew some lining for my corset yesterday. realised i didn't seam it that time, the threads are all unraveling. ughh. and there's actually one piece that's sewed on its flipside -.- aiyoh.



looks much neater with the lining. but the inside still sucks.



removed all the enzyme buttons as well since it wasn't even positioned correctly. perhaps can replace with velcro.

here's my prototype blue bird using the new found fleece method.
yawns. doesn't look like a bird.



oh look, it's glowing!

repaired the bottom. yahoo.





sun bian added some lace to the front thing i have. what's it called...

monday's work! yahoo.

1) seam and stitched all the pieces together...



2) scrunch and stitch the individual frills, then attach onto shirt


3) same for the frills, but this one is stiched onto another flat panel and folded in 2 (so the frills are not as 'tall'


4) tack the silver lining and stitch together with a grey zip


5) still missing one more step to completion... tidying the bottom. maybe doing today.

after leaving my blog to stale for 2weeks... finally managed to do something during my mc. lols.





am feeling lazy. bahhh.

ある友人は私にソニーの面接の事を言った：

あなたのことを面接の時に話した。
何でソニーに支援したの?＜－こういう質問があって、
僕はゲーム会社なんて、真剣に考えたことがないです。ゲームは好きですが。
でも、友達が「SQUARE」に入る事ができれば
掃除でもする
ということを言って、
自分が興味あることをどのぐらい大切にする必要があるかを
見直しました
と。
ありがとう
この答えが結構印象的だったと思う。

thank you daeyong. (",) i wish it was this easy for me to get into square!!

this is very amazing.

posted 11am. screenshot 2pm.


and 24 favourites. hmmm. (lol at the miserable stats the day before)

lightgrapher's photo is really very amazing.

mind you, i don't advertise these urls very often, that's why it can all only be attributed to one thing. gotta love my photog.

torn the gloves off my suit and cut the length for the leg area. turns out that i could use the leg area cloth for my gloves so i won't need to destroy the actual gloves part. yays.



gloves made from the leg part



lacking in energy to fill the details in her suit.. well not like it's gonna be seen anyway. more importantly, this suit is so translucent that i should find out how to cover myself properly before wearing it. -.-

you cannot imagine how it feels to be trapped here.

knowing you're powerless to do anything, yet be forced to remain.

caged like a broken-winged bird, only to reach out and flap, but instead discovered that with the loss of the other wing, he can never fly again.

i had almost near to nothing to work on on friday night, so i began writing some stuff in my shinigami book.
and the events did happen (in the anime).

they started singing... byebye mr american pie... howdy-ho. yes i'm in ultimate crank mood.



oh yes... i can't exactly correct undertaker's english also. oh well.

sewing the seams took my at least 3 hours, and it's not even a big patch. i had to constantly re-hole the stupid needle cos it kept getting stuck. and did i say how much it pisses me off? i'm beginning to grow a kind of unspeakable hatred for things like this. and it's not even tied to the problem at hand.

1) seam, fold the corners and do pleats. attachment of the frills to the collar line was done by handsewing because the machine JUST CANNOT SEW so many layers. it used to be able to, at least.



2) add hooks behind



and i finallized my coat too. added the spray painted rings to the suspenders.



sewed on the dark blue layer and tied ribbons as hooks.



then added buttons. sewed up the coat's edges as well so the trim lines don't appear visible on the outer layer. coat done, hurray.

it's like the more you try to perfect something, the more errors that turn up. it's very irritating. first it's the weather, then people flying kites, then this and that peeling, and finally the output shows that i ought to have checked more dilligently in the first place.

well anyway, the post should be more on my emily. i gave up on the seams because it just keeps getting stuck. what should have taken an hour takes thrice as long because the device itself is just not working properly. it just pisses me off so much.

since it's gonna be hidden, it didn't really matter.

1) so i'm just gonna sew where it matters. leave gap for stuffing, of course.



2) flip inside out



3) and stuff with fluff



4) sew together



5) and put on the damn clothes. oh, and cut some bundles off my existing wig, colored it brown, tied together and uhu glued onto the head. sewed on the red ribbon.




and i cannot find a more relevant chain of events that could have perpetrated the problem. i'm really at the end of my patience.

how to make a cheap bouquet of flowers in 2hours (whilst in between animes, of course)

1) cut petals (fold it numerous times and cut together - my max is 3 at once)



2) cut the leaves (had leftover green felt and used up all of them



3) bunch the petals together with wires. uhu glue the leaves in various places.

4) wrap the flowers in paper, wire the bottom so the bunch stays.



total: $2 white felt + $0.80 wires = $2.80

how to make cheap dog biscuits

1) daiso $2 clay... cut the patterns out using penknife or metal ruler

2) use a toothbrush/painbrush and dab the surface to produce a rough look

3) brown spraypaint



4) put in jar!



total: $2 clay + $2 jar = $4

how to make cheap eyepatch

1) cut from some leftover black cotton cloth the semi-rounded shape (2pieces, preferably connected 2 pieces) - no sewing is really needed since the cloth don't get unthreaded at the sides easily

2) stitch patch onto elastic band. uhu glue the 2 sides of the patch.



total: err... free?

sewing machine is on maintenance, so the only thing left to do is to cut cloths. oh well. at least now i can post a bit of the process.

template for the sleeves. 2 long rectangular strips for the frills. the rest all 2 pieces each.


for the shirt itself, 2 pieces each. 2 long strips on top and bottom for neck frills.


for the thing he hangs around his neck and his outer coat.


and emily!

xarxes break (pandora hearts) shopping list

white cloth: RM2/m*2m = $2
purple cloth: $2/m*2m = $4
dark blue satin: $6/m*1m = $6
blue cloth: $4/m*1m = $4
hooks (pinholes): $2.80/12pcs
hooks (circlets): $1.50
buttons: $2/6pcs
gold buckles: $1/pc*4 = $4
bra strap: $1.20/m*2m = $2.40
suspenders: $1.20/m*3m = $3.60
poles for cane sword: $20
rings: $0.85*2 = $1.70
enzyme buttons (big): $0.80/2pcs

total: $54.80

completed a hell lot of xarxes break. went materials shopping with maomao at chinatown and arab street on monday.



managed to sew on the buttons, suspenders and the hooks.



the back - can you see tiny little hook?



also did clothes for emily (on sat)



too late to post a tutorial (and too lazy) but oh wells. the ribbons here. and i just realised her little ribbon is red! stupid refernce pic with shadow shows purple. ughh.



and finished the boots lining as well. the curves were a killer. spent like 2.5hours sewing all the curves. looks ugly when near. bwahahha.



managed to hot glue the brown pouch break has before going over to claude's on sunday.



yay! hotglue rocks! i even have a black inner for it. so it looks really usable!



attached the chains on monday after getting them from arab street. used hooks so i can detach them if i'm washing the coat. (um, not 'if', but 'when'.)



spent about 2.5hours cutting out break's inner purple shirt from cosmode type b pattern for baroque's jacket. of cos sewing it is much easier! zzzz. it's the cutting that's hard!!! and time consuming. and i don't even know how to measure. yet. GRRRRR. GRRRRRR. GRRRRRRRR.